KERALA’S TRANSITION FROM PURE VEGETARIAN MEAL HOUSES TO ARABIC FLAVOURS

Abstract

Food is an essential component that energises our body to survive in day to day life and it also contains a transformative power when it is converted into a cuisine. It is realised that food habits have a history that is deeply rooted in the culture of the place it originated from. The food culture of each country has a different narrative to share and thus it can be apprehended that food is a major attraction that invites people from the world over to places far and wide. Food can be identified as an element that marks the culture of a country and spreads the aroma of the land to foreigners and food lovers. As Roland Barthes rightly remarks in the essay titled “Toward a Psychosociology of Contemporary Food Consumption”,